org.coode.owlapi.rdf.model

Class RDFNode

java.lang.Object

org.coode.owlapi.rdf.model.RDFNode

Direct Known Subclasses:

RDFLiteralNode, RDFResourceNode

public abstract class RDFNode
extends Object

Author: Matthew Horridge
The University Of Manchester
Bio-Health Informatics Group
Date: 06-Dec-2006

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
RDFNode()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract IRI	getIRI() Gets the URI of the resource.
abstract boolean	isAnonymous() Determines if this node is a resource and is anonymous.
abstract boolean	isLiteral()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

RDFNode

public RDFNode()

Method Detail

isLiteral

public abstract boolean isLiteral()

Returns:

true if the node is a literal

getIRI

public abstract IRI getIRI()

Gets the URI of the resource.

Returns:

The URI or null if this is an anonymous resource.

isAnonymous

public abstract boolean isAnonymous()

Determines if this node is a resource and is anonymous.

Returns:

true if this is a resource node (i.e. isLiteral returns false) and the node is anonymous, or false if this is a resource node and is not anonymous.